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Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ Movie: Everything To Know So Far Including The Release Date And More

The list of Stephen King short stories and novels (and everything in between) that have been adapted onscreen could fill the space of an abridged dictionary. Several more onscreen projects are in the works, too. There are not quite that many Salem’s Lot adaptations, but damn, there are a few. In 1979, Tobe Hooper directed […]

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‘Hacks’ Season 3: All The Details You Need To Know For The New Season (Update For March 2024)

Jean Smart is a darkly (and gloriously wryly) comedic force to be reckoned with, and Hacks celebrates those abilities like no other show has before. Smart portrays a veteran comedian, Deborah Vance, whose relevance had seen better days at the start of this series, and Hannah Einbinder has broken out as Ava, the other half […]

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The ‘Hacks’ Season 3 Teaser Makes A Great Show Even Better By Adding Christina Hendricks As A Gay Republican

Here’s the thing: you should be watching Hacks. It’s one of the best things on Max. But if Jean Smart wielding a chainsaw didn’t convince you to give the show a shot, maybe Christiana Hendricks — a.k.a. Joan from Mad Men — playing a “gay Republican oil heiress” who makes out with Hannah Einbinder will […]

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When Does The ‘Harry Potter’ TV Show Premiere On Max?

There hasn’t been much news about HBO’s Harry Potter series since it was first announced last year. But this morning, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO (and public enemy number one among Looney Tunes fans) David Zaslav offered an update on the reboot, which unfortunately involves J.K. Rowling. “We’ve not been shy about our excitement around Harry […]

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You’ll Have To Wait A Few Extra Days To Watch ‘Last Week Tonight’ On YouTube From Now On

You’ll have to find something new to watch during your lunch break on Mondays. Beginning with this past Sunday’s season 11 premiere, HBO isn’t posting full-length Last Week Tonight segments on YouTube until Thursday. “I know I usually share a link to our main story here on Mondays, but HBO has decided they’re going to […]

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Maisie Williams Revealed Why She Nearly Skipped Out On Her ‘Game Of Thrones’ Audition

Maisie Williams’ run on Game of Thrones included the coolest move in the entire Battle of Winterfell. Granted, that was a low bar to meet because much of that episode was barely freaking visible, but Arya ruled. It’s hard to envision anyone else in that role, but Williams almost didn’t go there, which would have […]

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Netflix is Said to License ‘Sex and the City’ From HBO

HBO is renting out one of its most valuable series to Netflix. Every season of “Sex and the City,” the HBO comedy that aired from 1998 to 2004, will begin streaming on Netflix for the first time in early April, according to three people familiar with the deal. HBO had a longstanding policy of not […]

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‘The Tourist’ Season 2: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Cast, Trailer, & More Info

Netflix is continuing to do its part to pick up damn fine shows abandoned elsewhere (Lucifer, You, etc.) and give them new life. In this case, an adrenaline-fueled Australian series, The Tourist, will continue to maintain its U.K. home on BBC One and its Aussie home base on Stan, but in the U.S. the show’s […]

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When Does ‘True Detective’ Season 4, Episode 2 Come Out?

HBO’s True Detective: Night Country might make you feel even chillier that you already do during these ongoing arctic blasts. Still, it’s almost guaranteed that Jodie Foster (Chief Liz Danvers) and Kali Reis’ (Trooper Evangeline Navarro) hardened investigators are even more over this sh*t than you are. Foster, for her part, insisted that she loved […]

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‘The White Lotus’ Season 3: An Update On Everything We Know About The New Season (Update For January 2024)

The White Lotus turned into a sleeper hit for HBO while satirizing the hell out of rich tourists who are utterly miserable despite themselves. The Hawaii-bound first season starred Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Sydney Sweeney, Steve Zahn, and Connie Britton as vacationers, but that’s not all. Murray Bartlett stole the show while pooping in a […]

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‘Hacks’ Season 3: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Cast, Trailer, & More Info

Jean Smart’s career has been humming along for decades and raging pretty hard for the past 10 or so years. Her magnificently inappropriate Laurie Blake was one of many Watchmen highlights, and that role led to two other HBO projects that gave us two of 2021’s greatest curmudgeons. That would include Mare of Easttown‘s boozy […]

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What ‘The Sopranos’ Iconic Filming Locations in N.J. Look Like Now

As much as it was a show about Italian American mobsters, “The Sopranos” was a show about New Jersey. From scenes of domestic life in a North Caldwell McMansion to after-hours debauchery at a strip club in Lodi, the show captured a snapshot of the Garden State in the late 1990s and 2000s, beguiling viewers […]

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‘True Detective’ Season 4: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Cast, Trailer, & More Info

Few TV junkies would dispute that HBO’s first season of True Detective is one of the top seasons of all time. Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey brought their ongoing dynamic back together in a new way while leaning into one of the more eerie and carefully parceled out mysteries to ever grace television. We shall […]

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‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2: Everything To Know For The New Season Including The Release Date & Cast

HBO‘s mutually beneficial adoration with George R.R. Martin bears much fruit as time wears forth. House of the Dragon will soon make its triumphant way back to the premium cable channel (and WBD streaming service, Max) for a new season full of dragon fire and brimstone-drama. As viewers are already aware, the primary conflict in […]

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‘A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ Season 1: A News Update On Everything We Know So Far

Westeros devotees have much to look forward to in 2024. After all, House of the Dragon‘s second season is on track after the series roared in to exceed expectations for those who haven’t forgotten the WTF-final Game of Thrones season. The Targaryen-focused prequel series has been so successful, in fact, that it almost negated the […]

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‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far Including The Release Date, Trailer & More

Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon impressively crashed HBO Max to such a degree that the audience turnout was obvious, even before data arrived. Season 2 of the Doomed-Targaryen series received a swift greenlight, and the first season dealt with all the necessary time jumps and cast switcheroos to set up the rest […]

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‘True Detective: Season 4’: Everything To Know About HBO’s ‘Night Country’ Installment

True Detective can never hope to surpass its immaculate first season starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Most viewers agree that the second season was a departure that could easily be forgotten, and the third outing valiantly soared in an attempt to at least equal former greatness (Mahershala Ali and Scoot McNairy’s mustache both rallied […]

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‘House Of The Dragon’: Everything To Know About Season 2 (Update For December 2023)

House of the Dragon has thus far been much better received than the final season of Game of Thrones. This certainly wasn’t easy to pull off, given that plenty of viewers were not thrilled about several outcomes from the original series, not the least of which was the manner in which Daenerys went mad. As […]

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‘A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ Season 1: Everything We Know About The New Season (Update For December 2023)

George R.R. Martin has accomplished more than 99.99% of published authors. Still, A Song of Ice and Fire readers and Game of Thrones viewers will continue to give him hell for not finishing Winds of Winter and beyond. Sure, Martin kind-of asked for it because he did volunteer for imprisonment if he didn’t finish that […]

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The ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2 Teaser Trailer Launches Into A Civil War And Goes *Heavy* On The Dragons

House of the Dragon‘s Season 2 will arrive in 2024, and HBO made good on their hint of a first look coming this weekend with a teaser trailer. As you can plainly see, Aemond’s major screw up of not being able to control Vhagar, which ended life for Luc and Arrax, has fully launched the […]

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‘A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight’ Season 1: An Info Update On The New Season (November 2023)

HBO’s road to more Game of Thrones shows wasn’t smooth. The initial attempted prequel series, Bloodmoon, starred Naomi Watts and was set over 1000 years before the events of GoT, but the show was scrapped after filming a $30 million pilot episode. Subsequently, House of the Dragon inspired more confidence and filmed a full season […]

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When Does ‘Abbott Elementary’ Season 3 Come Out?

Following questions about whether Abbott Elementary‘s third season would be adversely affected by the Hollywood strikes, writer/producer/star Quinta Brunson admitted that she had kind-of “welcomed a shorter season” due to the previous 22-episode structure of the show. Still, she loves what she does and is clearly ready to get rolling again. Good news on that […]

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Who Will Be In The ‘House Of The Dragon’ Season 2 Cast?

In the Game of Thrones era of George R.R. Martin’s empire, the Targaryens are nearly extinct. During House of the Dragons, however, there were plenty of them. Most of them with white-blonde hair, too, except for Rhaenyra’s first three children. [Cough] That is to say, the Velaryons generally had white-blonde hair, too, and between these […]

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